Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1914 — HAPPENINGE in the BIG CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGE in the BIG CITIES

Just a Little Incident of Real Life in ’Frisco

SAN FRANCISCO—LittIe incidents of real life, as this one was, provide entertainment for the most blase of crowds. And the mere fact that a crowd of theatergoers bound to their homes in the Richmond district were of this

sort did _not in the least keep them from chuckling to themselves quite as animatedly as the shoe store clerk who was on the same car. Near the downtown terminal the car had been boarded by a winsome little lass of the “Interesting” age, whose real blonde hair she had allowed to become mussed while working over some dry-as-dust matters in the office where she was employed. She. wasn’t used to being out that late, this could

\ be seen at a glance, for beftterehe had been in the car five minutes her head sank to one side, her eyes closed and she slipped off, into dreamland. Beside her was a stalwart young man who gazed with some consternation , and embarrassment at the slowly approaching head of the girl next to him. Just then the car gave a lurch, and, without awakening, the girl allowed her head to tilt farther and farther until at length it was resting snugly on the young man’s shoulder. Now this young man didn’t belong to the girl, and the girl didn’t belong to the young man, and by the youth’s actions this fact was as plain as day. He squirmed and looked uncomfortable, perspired and mopped his brow, and half rose when the name of his street was called, only to lean back again with a groan. The passengers chuckled, smijed and then giggled outright, while the young man darted daggerlike glances of annihilation about him. At length the martyr could stand it no longer. He had already gone three blocks past his stopping place, and human endurance has its limitations. With a gentle shove he set upright the cause of all his troubles, and rushed down the aisle toward the car door, while two blonde hairs trailing out behind his black suit changed the giggles into a roar of laughter that verily shook the car.